Word: biographic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be artistically equivalent at least to a Grade B movie, and the problem of scaring up enough of it to run even one television station all year round is fairly staggering. The live drama now being put out by NBC is about on a par with an early Biograph Film, minus Mary Pickford...
...Pickford, hired to pose at $5 per day when the weather was good. Photographs were taken on the roof of the company's building on 14th Street, under the direction of David Wark Griffith, whose salary was $25 per week. Soon the little company, then called American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., split, Biograph going on to cinema fame & fortune, American Mutoscope Co. to the manufacture of strength testographs, all manner of penny arcade devices...
...thunderous diapason is said to have made the old tycoon whisper to a retainer: "Did you bring an umbrella?" From choir-singing Sennett drifted into burlesque, then heard there were jobs to be had in the infant cinema industry. He was a member of David Wark Griffith's Biograph troupe when it went to Los Angeles in 1910. In those days his cinema-going mother always knew the state of her son's finances by noting whether he appeared on the screen wearing a much-prized diamond ring...
...Clark Gable as Blackie Gallagher in MGM's Manhattan Melodrama (TIME, May 14) many a cinemaddict one night last week went to the Biograph Theatre on Chicago's North Side. One of them was a slight, dark-haired, harmless-looking little man in shirtsleeves, wearing a white hat and gold-rimmed spectacles. As he walked up to the box office, a man sitting in a parked car at the curb gave a start. Chief Investigator Melvin Purvis of the Department of Justice in Chicago had, for the first time in a four-month manhunt, clapped eyes on Desperado...
...grown a mustache. His eyebrows were plucked, his pug nose straightened, his face "lifted." But these disguises did not fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through the head, one near the heart. Down the street two women were shot...